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The online newspaper The Paypers has recently published The Mobile Payments Market Guide 2012. This useful document provides an in-depth look at the global mobile financial services ecosystem, combining insight from key stakeholders and top-level industry thought leaders with a comprehensive overview of market players (MNOs, banks, technology providers, phone manufacturers or payment processors).
PricewaterhouseCoopers recently surveyed approximately 3000 banking customers in nine different markets to understand customers’ needs, attitudes and behaviours to digital media.
The result is summarized in the The new digital tipping point report which explores the opportunities that exist for banks.
Interesting report published by McKinsey: The Road to Mobile Payments Services.
With new players redrawing the battle lines, financial services providers must now adopt innovations in mobile payments and marketing to deepen relationships with consumers and sustain their competitive advantage.
BitCoin, the web’s virtual currency, isn’t without its controversy. But two things are known for sure – it’s an interesting economic experiment, and people are using it to buy real things right now.
Whether you just want to find out more about BitCoin or to actually use the currency, you may want to check out “Virtual Currency: The BitCoin Guide”.
The move of Facebook into the payment area and the more general concept of social currency are indeed a very hot topic.
On this subject we recommend reading a recent post published on Brian Solis’s blog …
In case you missed this interesting event on Online Banking 2.0, you can find below the video recording of a webinar held by Brett King in collaboration with backbase.
As many readers of this blog who asked to take part to their beta test, we have recently received a note from BankSimple. Their approach is really quite different from the average bank, as described in the interesting post A Little Note From BankSimple by Jim Marous.
This research represents MindfulMoney.co.uk’s state-of-play analysis of the most influential conversations about investments on the social web.
The social network analysis was sponsored by MindfulMoney.co.uk as part of their ongoing initiative to help facilitate a more mindful and social conversation about investments by embracing new and unconventional voices, channels and views.
Wikileaks is definitely a hot topic these days and Brett King has shared is view of the impact of Julian’s Assange controversial website on the finance sector in an interesting article “What Wikileaks means for the finance sector…”.
Does the “long tail ” principle apply to banks as well? We found a very inspiring article by Brett King on the Huffington Post, What The Beatles’ Success on iTunes Means for Banks, where the author discuss the implications of digital vs. physical distribution for banks.
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